A true story, for those scratching their heads. My wife and I are smokers (bad, bad, yes, I know) and we happily tossed our throw-away cigarette lighters into the appropriate bin when boarding a flight a couple of years ago.

What we completely forgot is that in our carry on, left over from a previous camping trip, was a stash of about 4 lighters,10 boxes of "strike anywhere" matches and a camping knife. The thing was, it wasn't the screeners that noticed them, rather they were discovered by ourselves as soon we got to our hotel room and started going through our luggage. The funny thing is that we didn't know about the no-liquids-over-2-ounces rule, which was relatively new when we flew. The screeners completely missed these banned items because they were far too interested in the oversized bottles of Pantene in our luggage, whiich they promptly seized, of course.

My wife, who worked airport security prior to the TSA takeover, and was thoroughly disgusted by the whole affair, said that the knife, for sure, would never have made it past the gate before the TSA took over.

Wovel obviously means that the security screeners have not enhanced security one bit. He's right. In fact, it's probably easier to sneak a weapon or a bomb on a plane today than it was before 9/11.

Too bad that the weak spineless reps didn't have the guts to follow through. The DOJ needs an overhaul after this mess.

So does the legislature. Remember this when election time comes.

RHEL is fine, CentOS is just awful, and anytime someone offers up CentOS as a substitute for RHEL, I wonder of they've ever used CentOS. Watch for circular dependencies and lots of unavailable packages.

I've never seen that problem with CentOS.

Everything you could need is an apt-get away, rather then google-the-wget away with CentOS and dag. I know my situation isn't a cluster, but we're running 20 Ubuntu servers in 15 colos currently, and our experience has been by far the best with Ubuntu.

The problem with Ubuntu for scientific computing is that many commercial scientific computing packages have runtime dependencies on old, outdated libraries found in Red Hat-based distros, but aren't available on Ubuntu without compiling from source. I used to admin 2 large compute clusters for a Fortune 100 NASA contractor, so I actually know what I'm talking about.

Though I've never came anything close to death, I have personally gotten lost due to bad GPS data. Not so bad that I couldn't find my way back to some place I knew, mind you. However, if I were driving out into Death Valley with the road getting rougher, I would probably just say "screw this GPS, it's wrong," turn around and go back the way I came. And then look at a real paper map, or at least get directions from one of the locals. I know better than to go traipsing off into Death Valley with no idea of where I'm going.

OTOH, being a technology expert, I happen to grok that even advanced tech like GPS and smartphones have their failure modes. Some people just put too much faith into something they don't understand.

2.4.22 was one of the last releases before 2.6 was released. During that time, many features were being backported from the 2.5 series kernels. I don't know where the feature in question came from, but whether or not it was in 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 isn't clear to me.

But it's not a highway! It's series of tubes! Why, Friday my staff sent out an Internet and I only just it got on Tuesday!

No. RTFA:

The accused infringement relates to the Linux kernel itself, which is at the core of Google's server farm. The complaint named a long list of allegedly infringing Linux versions, starting with the 2.4.22.x tree all the way to version "2.6.31.x, or versions beyond 2.6.31.x."

But they were classified and kept by the CIA. The documents themselves (1 2 3 4 5 6) carry stamps keeping them exempt from declassification for dates as late at 1978 and 1989.

Some of the recipes in there, however, are as old as Julius Caesar.

I'm sure there's no bias here, they must have been careful to only sue the impoverished hobby bloggers instead of the ones who are making their mortgage payments.

Many of the people sued by Righthaven are/were actually Area 51 bloggers posting various sections of long-outdated articles of the Las Vegas Review-Journal covering events and happenings at the Nevada Test Site and the Groom Lake facility itself.

I suspect the vast majority of them haven't made dime.

In fact, I can think of a major automotive company that still does exactly that: you sign in via https, get your one-time password, and then initiate the transfer with ftp.

Absolutely hideous, but it works.

Africa? Clearly the Bible places humanity's origins in the Garden of Eden, located somewhere in Mesopotamia, on the continent of Asia.

Obviously Africa was not involved in language.

Houses with Stucco have this issue as well. Builders use a steel mesh to adhere the Stucco to the house which acts like a Faraday Cage.

You mean a house with "fake" stucco walls and stick construction. If your house is block construction, like a large number of houses here in sunny Florida, you won't have this problem, because the steel mesh is unnecessary in this case.

I have grown repairing computers, fixing computer problems. I have absolutelly no fucking idea how to use a car, but I can write assembler sleeping (too bad dreams are stored on volatile ram).

Well, that big round thing on the drivers side is the steering wheel. Turn that left to go left, and right to go right. The long skinny pedal on the right is the accelerator. Press it down with your foot to go faster. The wide fat pedal on the left is the brake. You press it down to stop.

The big thing that sticks out of the steering column (or it may be on the floor) is the shifter. Put it in R to back up or D to go forward.

Beyond that, I suggest taking a driving class.

HTH.

Ever heard of a toggle switch?